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Ch.22 Developmental
Developmental Concepts
Question | Answer |
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Accommodation | (1) Ability to adjust the eye to see at various distances (2) Process by which intellectual acts are changed to handle increasingly complex information |
Assimilation | process by which a person interprets information to fit the current level of cognition |
Cognitive Development | learning that occurs as a result of the internal organization of an event, which forms a mental schema (plan) and serves as a base for further schemata as one grows and develops (Piaget’s theory of cognitive development) |
Development | increase in the complexity of function and progression to skill advancement |
Developmental Tasks | successful achievement of psychomotor, psychosocial, or cognitive skills at certain periods in life; failure to obtain the developmental task can lead to unhappiness and difficulty with later tasks |
Epigenetics | study of the changes that occur in organisms due to modification of gene expression and hereditability |
Epigenomics | epigenetic changes that occur in many genes or the entire organism |
Faith | (1) spiritual dimensions of a person’s life regardless of religious affiliation; (2) confident belief in something for which there is no proof or material evidence |
Genome | all the DNA in an organism, including its genes |
Genomics | (1) study of the structure and interactions of all genes in the human body (2) emerging discipline in which genomic information about a person is used in their clinical care (for diagnostic/therapeutic decision making) |
Growth | an increase in body size or changes in body cell structure, function, and complexity |
Heredity | passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another |
Moral Development | influence of cultural effects on one’s perceptions of justice in interpersonal relationships |